The Fifth Estate Season 42 Episodes
Season 42 Episode Guide
Episode 1 - Welcome Back, Big TobaccoBig Tobacco is trying to clean up its image, moving into the booming e-cigarette business, while continuing to peddle the deadly tobacco products. Mark Kelley investigates.
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Episode 2 - Saved at SeaThis year thousands of migrants have died trying to cross the stormy Mediterranean Sea to safety in Europe. Nahlah Ayed reports from the deck of the MOAS Responder as the crew desperately tries to save them.
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Episode 3 - Caught on CameraThey are images that shocked America and were shared around the world - disturbing cell phone videos taken by bystanders of police shooting black men in America. They became political fodder for an ugly presidential campaign. To capture what is really going on during these confrontations, police-worn body cameras are increasingly seen as the answer: a way to curb the killings - and police the police. But can the police-worn body cameras also distort the picture? Do they sometime give us an incomplete version of what really happened? Mark Kelley investigates what happens when police are "Caught on Camera' in the U.S. and Canada.
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Episode 4 - No Foul PlayWhat happened to Stacy Debungee on the night of October 18, 2015 was a mystery, but just hours after finding his body in a Thunder Bay river, police determined his death was not suspicious. The fifth estate went to investigate what really happened and found several people who were there that night and agreed to share their story.
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Episode 6 - Dan and Carol Get BustedA tale from the shadier side of the stock market - from the streets of Montreal, but with a cast of characters right out of a Hollywood movie. A joint investigation by the fifth estate and Radio-Canada's Enquete program digs into the often dubious Montreal-based penny stock promotion business, and raises questions about how Quebec's financial market regulators failed to stop certain promoters who were allegedly cheating thousands of investors across North America. There are the "the young wolves" - who allegedly made tens of millions of dollars manipulating the stock markets. One was indicted in the U.S. for a multi-million dollar "pump and dump" scheme. Another was ordered by a U.S. court to pay close to $4 million for alleged penny stock fraud. But Quebec never went after them. Then there is "The Collector" - a long-time friend of some of Montreal's top underworld wiseguys who wanted in on the action. But the full force of the law would only come down on Dan Ryan and his wife Carol McKeown. They made money in the same penny stocks promotion racket...but their success attracted the sharks. And now they face financial ruin - and lengthy court battles.
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Episode 7 - The Murder of Tim Bosma: The Devil Had a NameIt was a murder that shocked a nation. Tim Bosma, a church-going husband and young father, had gone on a test drive with two men who said they wanted to buy his truck. Bob McKeown unravels what happened on that fateful spring night, and takes an in-depth look into the background of convicted killer Dellen Millard.
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Episode 8 - The PourGiving chronic alcoholics an hourly dose of wine - a bold but controversial way to deal with alcoholism. Mark Kelley visits an Ottawa treatment centre to meet the residents and the care workers involved in a program that has attracted attention from around the world.
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Episode 9 - Canada's Drug ProblemWe pay more for prescription drugs than almost every other country in the world - and rising drug costs are taking a toll on Canadians. People are splitting their pills, cutting back on their prescriptions, going deep into debt - and sometimes even dying. The Fifth Estate investigates the rising cost of pharmaceuticals in Canada.
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Episode 10 - The Conspiracy Files: Putin, the FBI, and Donald TrumpAn ugly and controversial U.S. election campaign got even uglier - and more bizarre - after the election was over. In recent days Donald Trump has faced a storm of questions about his Russian connections. Bob McKeown looks at what was behind the triumph of Trump, and the disturbing questions left unanswered.
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Episode 13 - Betrayal of TrustA CBC investigation reveals how lawyers across Canada have misappropriated and mishandled clients' money to the tune of tens of millions of dollars, sometimes even charging vulnerable people top dollar for shoddy services. Mark Kelley looks at who is protecting Canadians from untrustworthy lawyers?
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Episode 15 - The UntouchablesA tax dodge for Canada's wealthy dreamed up by one of the biggest accounting giants in the world was called a "sham," but a government inquiry vowing to get to the bottom of it went nowhere. Gillian Findlay investigates.
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Episode 16 - The DisruptersThe Fifth Estate takes you inside the powerful Black Lives Matter movement, with Janaya Khan, the Toronto activist who has become its international ambassador.
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Episode 17 - The Case Runner | Refugees in Canada: After the CrossingThe untold story of what happened after the Lac Megantic rail disaster. In July 2013 a runaway train with more than 7 million litres of volatile crude oil crashed in a small Quebec town, leaving part of Lac Megantic incinerated and 47 people dead. Soon after of the crash – when many bodies were still being identified -- lawyers from America turn up in town, offering to help families fight for compensation. Working with them behind the scenes is a shadowy Texan who's made a career out of turning disasters into dollars. Working with our colleagues from Radio-Canada’s Enquete program, Mark Kelley reports on The Case Runner. Then, they come in the dead of night, in the bitter cold - refugees seeking haven in Canada. Hundreds have crossed the border from the United States in the last couple of months alone. Every year, Canada receives several thousand people claiming asylum. But once they are here, what really happens to asylum seekers? The Fifth Estate’s new co-host Habiba Nosheen looks at the hopes, the fears, and the long legal battles to get to stay in Canada. Our team spent a week following the lawyers at the Toronto’s Refugee Law Office.
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Episode 19 - Cross Lake: "This Is Where I Live" (Season Finale)The youth of Cross Lake, a northern Indigenous community, share their hopes and dreams about growing up in a northern Indigenous community that has been plagued by suicides.
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Episode 20 - Murder in the Family [Update]Richard Oland of the Moosehead brewing family was bludgeoned to death. His son Dennis is convicted of the brutal murder, but then wins his appeal and is set free. Bob McKeown investigates a tangled family tale and the many questions still unanswered.
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